Expel the obsession to drink

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.25, Step Two
Having reduced us to a state of absolute helplessness, you now declare that none but a Higher Power can remove our obsession.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.32, Step Two
The fact was we really hadn't cleaned house so that the grace of God could enter us and expel the obsession.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.64, Step Six
It is plain for everybody to see that each sober A.A. member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.64, Step Six
As they are humbled by the terrific beating administered by alcohol, the grace of God can enter them and expel their obsession.

Big Book xv, Foreword to Second Edition
Six months earlier, the broker had been relieved of his drink obsession by a sudden spiritual experience, following a meeting with an alcoholic friend who had been in contact with the Oxford Groups of that day.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.76, Step Seven
If that degree of humility could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.21, Step One
It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.24, Step One
We stand ready to do anything which will lift the merciless obsession from us.

Big Book p.30, More About Alcoholism
The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.22, Step One
Our sponsors declared that we were the victims of a mental obsession so subtly powerful that no amount of human willpower could break it.

Big Book p.23, There Is A Solution
There is the obsession that somehow, someday, they will beat the game.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.28, Step Two
Relieved of the alcohol obsession, their lives unaccountably transformed, they came to believe in a Higher Power, and most of them began to talk of God."

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.15, Foreword
A.A.'s Twelve Steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.63, Step Six
But when I became willing to clean house and then asked a Higher Power, God as I understood Him, to give me release, my obsession to drink vanished.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions p.107, Step Twelve
Step One showed us an amazing paradox: We found that we were totally unable to be rid of the alcohol obsession until we first admitted that we were powerless over it.